Lot # 033
JACK HAMILTON BUSH
ARCA CGP CSGA CSPWC OSA P11 1909 - 1977 Canadian

Untitled
oil on canvas,
signed and dated 1958
15 3/8 x 23 1/8 in,  39 x 58.7 cm

Provenance:
Acquired directly from the Artist's son by the present Private Collection, Ontario

Literature:
Karen Wilkin, editor, Jack Bush, 1984, essay by Barrie Hale, page 30

Jack Bush's 1958 untitled canvas is from the Painters Eleven period. It serves as a vivid reminder of the significant time in which Bush rose to prominence in the newly established Toronto modernist art scene. This piece was painted only a year after his influential encounter with renowned New York art critic Clement Greenberg. After much critiquing and reflection, Bush refined his concept of the abstract. This led to a stripped-down art based on form, colour and shape. In Untitled, Bush's colour palette creates a dynamic contrast between hot orange and the neutral tones of the ochre shape and tones of grey in the ground.
Bush created an energy around his career that few had been able to achieve in Canadian abstract art. What made Bush's work distinctly his own was, as Barrie Hale writes, "the conjunction of his quarter century in advertising design, his membership in the Canadian Group of Painters...his place in Painters Eleven, and his 'maverick' role, usually understated but always there." Bush influenced many younger artists of his generation including members of the Painters Eleven such as Tom Hodgson and Oscar Cahén.

Sold For: $58,500.00 CAD
Estimate: $25,000 ~ $35,000 CAD

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